Host institution: The Department of English Language and Literature,Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey

â€œAnglophones Literatures in International Contextsâ€ will address a numberof issues central to the study of literatures in English today. In TheEnigma of Arrival (1987) V. S. Naipaul writes: â€œThe migration, within theBritish Empire, from India to Trinidad had given me the English languageas my own, and a particular kind of education. This had partly seeded mywish to be a writer in a particular mode, and had committed me to theliterary career I had been following in England for twenty years.â€ Thispersonal account raises a number of issues the conference wishes toaddress:

Â· the imperial and post-imperial history of Anglophone literaturesand literary studies

Â· the adoption of the imperial language by colonial subjects

Â· the multinational locations of literary production and literarystudy in English

Â· the extraordinary international migrancy of English-languagewriters and their texts

Â· the place of England and â€œEnglishnessâ€ in the new literatures inEnglish.

Keynote Speaker: Elleke BoehmerElleke Boehmer is Professor of World Literature in English, havingpreviously been Hildred Carlile Professor in English at Royal Holloway,University of London. She currently works on questions of migration,identity and resistance in both postcolonial literature and writing of thecolonial period, in particular of sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Amongher many publications are Colonial and Postcolonial Literature (1995 andsecond edition, 2005), Empire Writing (Oxford World's Classics, 1998),Empire, the National and the Postcolonial 1890-1920 (2002), and Mandela: AVery Short Introduction (forthcoming 2008). Elleke Boehmer is also theGeneral Editor of the new Series, Oxford Studies in PostcolonialLiteratures.

Submissions: Please send an abstract of 300 words for 20-minute papers toDr. Don Randall by March 31st 2008. Selected papers may be published in aspecial issue of College Literature (listed in the Arts and HumanitiesCitation Index).